Luckily in the chat room i got a step by step guide from nice fellows on enabling and mounting hdd and optical media drives

If you saved that in any fashion, perhaps you could add here as a "Howto", One on one instruction is hard to come by on any forum !No worries if you don't.

Thxsregardsmetvas

Oh, i feel so bad i did not do that.I would need that for other 4 machines in the office.I guess i was to concentrated on solving the issue...Next time i surely will.I guess creating a such step by step guide for Linux configuration would be something that would attract many people to install THIS distro and not the other

GrannyGeek: It doesn't work on my systems and I haven't changed the default keymappings. I checked the list and you're right about one thing: it's there. It just doesn't work. If I change it from xflock4 to xlock only *then* does it work on my system. Obviously YMMV.

Curious. But that's computers for you.<g> I haven't changed the keymappings either. Maybe somebody can explain it, but I can't. Actually, I don't use a screensaver and have been annoyed numerous times when I hit Control-Alt-Delete in a terminal while X was still running (intending to reboot) and instead the screen lock came up. I give my password and it goes away. Now that we've talked about it, I think I'll try to change the key mapping so that won't happen. Wait--I just did it.

One keyboard shortcut that doesn't work for me is Control-Escape to bring up the menu. For me, nothing happens. So I guess we both have default shortcuts that don't work.--GrannyGeek

In my case, to access second HDD after mounting it, i had to go via File System tool to folder mnt then hdb1, as there was content of my HDD. That was the only way to access it, by navigating through those folders.

If I understand correctly, you would have do this the first time. But once you find it, if you're using Thunar (the XFce default file manager) you can drag a shortcut to /hdb1 into the left column under the horizontal divider line. Just navigate to the desired drive and drag and drop the icon to the left column under the divider line. Then when you use Thunar and you want quick access to that drive, just double-click on that icon in the left column and it'll open directly on that drive and you won't have to go through the folders. You can drop any directory in that shortcut column, so use it to make things easier for yourself.--GrannyGeek

GrannyGeek: It doesn't work on my systems and I haven't changed the default keymappings. I checked the list and you're right about one thing: it's there. It just doesn't work. If I change it from xflock4 to xlock only *then* does it work on my system. Obviously YMMV.

Curious. But that's computers for you.<g> I haven't changed the keymappings either. Maybe somebody can explain it, but I can't. Actually, I don't use a screensaver and have been annoyed numerous times when I hit Control-Alt-Delete in a terminal while X was still running (intending to reboot) and instead the screen lock came up. I give my password and it goes away. Now that we've talked about it, I think I'll try to change the key mapping so that won't happen. Wait--I just did it.

One keyboard shortcut that doesn't work for me is Control-Escape to bring up the menu. For me, nothing happens. So I guess we both have default shortcuts that don't work.--GrannyGeek

OK, I just tried CTRL-ESC and sure enough it works just fine on my system. That really is strange. I wonder if the fact that I am using an Israeli keybaord (Hebrew/English) with a us keymapping is why my results are different from yours. Hmmm...

I do like having xscreensaver installed anywhere other than home, particularly on a desktop system. That way is I do walk away from the system someone else can't use my session and account.

Oh well... We obviously both answer questions based on our experience. It's interesting to learn that some behaviors in Xfce aren't consistent across all systems even though we are running the same distro, the same version of Xfce, and haven't altered the relevant settings. I'm quite sure that isn't a good thing but I'm not at all sure how I'd file a coherent bug report with the Xfce developers to explain it in a way that would give them any hope of reproducing the issue.

I dont think that is a bug. Many things can change the behavior of the system, I am sure many of other people keyboard settings will not work on my system with my ~/.Xmodmap. Looks more like something like that than like a bug, but I am just guessing, I could be mistaken, happened before

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In my case, to access second HDD after mounting it, i had to go via File System tool to folder mnt then hdb1, as there was content of my HDD. That was the only way to access it, by navigating through those folders.

If I understand correctly, you would have do this the first time. But once you find it, if you're using Thunar (the XFce default file manager) you can drag a shortcut to /hdb1 into the left column under the horizontal divider line. Just navigate to the desired drive and drag and drop the icon to the left column under the divider line. Then when you use Thunar and you want quick access to that drive, just double-click on that icon in the left column and it'll open directly on that drive and you won't have to go through the folders. You can drop any directory in that shortcut column, so use it to make things easier for yourself.--GrannyGeek

Done that, thanks.Wasn't easy to find hdb folder though. I had to be told where it is to find it.

fuelinux: What you're looking at is already in Vector Linux. It's the keyboard switching applet I described earlier. The problem Azmandius ran into is described on the Xfce Goodies web page you linked:

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For now the keyboard layouts cannot be configured from the plugin itself, they should be set in the XF86Config file or some other way (e.g. setxkbmap).

The problem with setxkbmap is that using it is often as hard as or harder than just editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. For example, the output of setxkbmap -print on my system looks like this:

xkb_symbols is where my ability to switch between U.S. English and Israeli layouts is defined. Geometry also has to be correct. KDE has a tool to set this correctly in the GUI. Sadly Xfce does not. Wolvix has a tool for this that their developers added to their Control Center. There is no equivalent for vasm or vasmCC. It's been promised for a future release but it doesn't exist yet.

Save the file, close all your X apps and restart the X server with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACEThen you can change the layouts with ctrl+shift or the keyboard shortcut of your choice, and you can use the Xfce keyboard applet as well.

HTH

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Save the file, close all your X apps and restart the X server with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACEThen you can change the layouts with ctrl+shift or the keyboard shortcut of your choice, and you can use the Xfce keyboard applet as well.

@fuelinux: Thank you for your kind words. Let's put it this way: the distribution, the developers, and the community are what convinced me. I just reported my experiences. I don't deserve any credit. The VL developers and community do.